Replacing Laptop Hard Drive

I am suffering with a hard drive that is too small and I want to replace it
moving everything on the old hard drive to the new one. Can this be done
without damaging the integrity of the operating system?

ctdiaz;531904 Wrote:
> I am suffering with a hard drive that is too small and I want to replace
> it moving everything on the old hard drive to the new one. Can this be
> done without damaging the integrity of the operating system?

Yes. Your best chance would be to purchase your new hard disk, and
temporarily install it into an External USB Enclosure. From there, you
can use Acronis TruImage to make a 1-to-1 clone your existing drive,
including the hidden recovery partition.

When that is done, simply swap out the old hard drive with the new one,
and you should be able to continue as though nothing has changed,
although you will now have more free space on you C:. If everything goes
well, you can re-partition you old hard disk and use it in the external
enclosure as a backup drive.


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There is a possibility you might have to repair the installation if its an
image you are restoring to the new drive.
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"ctdiaz" <> wrote in message
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>I am suffering with a hard drive that is too small and I want to replace it
> moving everything on the old hard drive to the new one. Can this be done
> without damaging the integrity of the operating system?

On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:15:00 -0800, ctdiaz wrote:

> I am suffering with a hard drive that is too small and I want to replace it
> moving everything on the old hard drive to the new one. Can this be done
> without damaging the integrity of the operating system?

Sure. I did that with the 40gb drive in my Gateway laptop - replaced it
with a 120gb. I loaded a Linux Live CD, backed all the partitions to an
external USB using partimage - swapped the drive - booted the Live CD
again and used partimage to restore the partitions to the new drive -
piece of cake. The whole exercise took less than an hour.

DOH! Homer Simpson Moment!

I forgot to add the link to Acronis in my previous post.

'Backup software for data backup and disaster recovery in Windows and
Linux - Acronis' (http://www.acronis.com/)


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Do you hear, huh? The Alpha and The Omega? Death and Rebirth? -And as
you die, so shall I be Reborn-...

- ASUS A8N32-SLI-Deluxe
- AMD Atlon 64 Dual-Core 4800+
- 4GB DDR400
- 128MB ASUS nVidia 6600 PCI-Express
- Thermaltake Tai-Chi Watercooled Chassis
- 1207GB Total Formatted Storage
- Vista Ultimate x64
- CodeGear Delphi 2007'http://dzomlija.spaces.live.com/' (http://dzomlija.spaces.live.com/)